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.. mss•: MAILS. !A R A-1 v Ln—s Dubiip. Dal— 6 Gottenburgli, t Dublin. 3 Waterford. I'RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWSLVE O'CLOCK. Consols for Opening 64,i I Red. Ann. . 63 TIDE SUN. lOLEM QUI; DICF:RE rA,LSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1808. Tins morning we received a series 'of Paris Pa pers, from the ist to the 22d December. The fol lowing are the principal articles which they con- lain :---. Dnc, t B.—The following remarks appear iu tire Monitetir upon two articles of news ex tra&ed front the English Papers. The first relates to the communication between Gibraltar and the' Spanish territories. The itioniteur observes, " Com merce was carried on there between Spain and Gib raltar. If the King of Spain knew that his Gover nors betrayed their duty, and 'traded with England, whilst England invades his Colonies, surprizes his Frimes, massacres his seamen during Peace, and cause&so Many miseries to his people, his Catholic Majesty could not but be indignant at it." Upon the second Extraa, which relates to Mr. Rest, junior's Mission, the Monileur remarks, that " the English have strange ideas of the Sovereignty of Nations, if they think the Americans pusillani mous and impolitic enough to barter away their in dependenEe, and abandon their ahare of the Corn- coerce of the Colonies to England. If they could adopt such a mode of condua, renounce the sove reigt ity of their flag, and interdi& themselves from all Commerce with France, there is no doubt that tearing thus to pieces their first charter, they would be at war with France and with all the Continental Powers." ' TO THE CONSUF OF THE. VNITFD STATES OF AMR RICA AT MARSfALLES. "• Tunis, Nov. 5, 1807. Stn-4-I hasten to ccirninunicate to you the Olowing . news, contained in a letter I received three days ago from the Consul General of the 'United States at Algiers, Colonel LEAR, dated the tst of 06tober last ; hich he informs me that, on the .sth of that month, the Dey sent for the Dragomans of the American, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch Consuls, and ordered them to inform their respeCtive Consuls that he bad long.waited for their Annuities due for some time; that his patience was exhausted, and that if he did not receive advices through the medium of Alicant, or by some speedy arrivals, which would assure him of the annuities being soon paid, they should feel the consequence. The ConsUl-General considered thlt •is a formal declaration, the reigning Dey being in the .habit of carrying his threats int o execution—and lie .! i i„tiks that there is. little doubt of his breaking with one dt he Powers, or with all ..-'but we pesume that, if his attacksbe direCted against one alone, the extent of our commerce in' , these seas will be an objea of temptation to him. You will, in consequence, ii;:mediately advise all American Ships in your district to be on their ~guard, and also transmit this information to such of our Coosuls in Europe as you may have occasion to corre!ipond with. " I have the honour to - be, &c. • (Signed) '" C. D. C6xa." PARIS, DEC. 1 b.—Jt is slid that the Prince Re gent of Fortugil is certainly, gone to the Brazils. Lisbon complains bitterly of his condua, and, among other tVtirgs,, of his having spiked some of the bins of Forr Heber, in order to leave the Eng lish free access. It was announced at the departureof,the Courier, that the English had just debarked :at Peniche, a very .imPortant Port , . 71 leagues frnin Lisbon.--- :A dreadful storm which took place at Lisbon was succeeded by a slight shock of an earthquake, which happily did no damage. On the 24th Nov. a F 1,,,; of Truce sent in by Sir ,SIDNRY Smerri, arrived tt Lihbon,willt the following notification : "To all whom it may concern.--It being unto . lions that the Ports of Portugal 'are shut against the British fly, and that his Britannic Majesty's Minister has quitted the Cipital, the mouth .of the Tagus is :declared to ,be in a state of rigorpus blockade. It is therefore notified to the Portu guese •-Government, that the executiiin of thil . measure will be rigorously enforced, until the difficulties that have lately•arirren be done. away.— The Consuls ot Neutral Pqwers are also informed . of this, in order that they may 'acquaint their differ ent Courts with this. bleekade, which will be•main tained in the manner, authorised by the Laws of Na- tions and the Treaties.concluded between'His Bri tannic Majesty and the Neutral Powef's. , • , • `," 48 On board this ilibernia, oirtho Tagus, Nov. DEC/MTh!. kNo'r's Proclamation upon entering Lisbon, states in substance, that the French Army entered that City to save the Prince and the Country from the influence of .Eng land—but that the Prince,_ so respe6table for his. vir tues, has suffered himself to be guided by the advice of some bad persons about him, and has thrown himself into the arms of his enemies ; that these persons insinuated apprehensions for his personal safety; his subjeets have been considered as nothing, and their interests .have been sacrificed to the cowar dice of some coasters. Inhabitants of Lisbon," adds the General in Chief, " remain quiet in your houses, neither fear my Army nor myself; we are only terrible to our enemies and to the wicked. The Great'NArot.sow, my Master, has sent me to prote& you—l will proted you." It was not Fort Beber, but Fort Beler, the guns of which wen spiked, by the Prince's order, General DELABOHDE has been appointed Cord .of Lisbon, and of all the Troop fin that City. We hoped that the Prince, knowing at length what were the real interests of his kingdom, 'was preparing to accede to the grand Confederacy of Europe.—But all these deMonstrations were only so many ruses to gain time.—And what use has he made of this time ?- 7 -he has deserted the Throne which he might have rendered free.„ The result of his wise manceuvres is, to emure hitnself, till fresh incidents happen, the post of Viceroy or Gover nor of an English Colony.---His condua has proved the necessity of the Expedition to Portugal. The Expedition of the English will soon convince him of their gratitude. But Europe sees with joy that an alliance which unites the two most 'power ful Sovereigns of Europe, could never be cemented at a more critical moment.. This Cumpat alone can guarantee it from the incessant aggressions of a maritime despotism, whose surest and richest spoils are always the wrecks of the Thrones it pretends to proteCL—Gazette de France. DEC. 19.—There were rumours yesterday of the arrival at Paris of an English Neetiator—the sane rumours are in Circulation in London, where flags'id truce are made to arrive daily with important dis; patches. These reports are so often repeated that they no longer produce any etre& Intelligence from Germany announces the recall of the Austrian and Prussian Ambassadors from Lon don. WE have seen with the utmost regret the at tempts which have been made in some parts of the Country to obtain Petitions for Peace, because it must be obvious to every man of common sense that, in the present state of atiliirs, Meetings Called for such purposes are not at all calculated to accele rate the attainment of the desired objed, and can produce no other Weal, and indeed in general are intended to produce no other effeel, but that of embarrassing Ministers. 'To call upon the Govern ment of this Country to make Peace, after BootiA rattru has declared that he will grant no Peace that / shall not deprive us of our Maritime Supe. 7 riority, and for ever disable us from disturbing the Peace of the Continent ; or, ip plain English, which shall render us. incapable of opposing the am bitious schemes of France.—To call upouthe Go- Vernment to make peace under such circumstances, is, in fact, to call upon it to surrender every thing to France, and to throw the people of this country up. on the mercy of their implacable Enemy. Mr. Fox, the great advocate of peace, found it impossible, in aO6, to induce BodSTAPAIITE to consent to such a Peace as he thought consistent with the safety or the honour of this country ; and we would ask whe ther the events which have occurred since that pe riod—whether the language which BUONAPARTE has lately held, and the Decrees he has lately issued, afford any reasonable ground to believe that he is more sincerely dispoied to a peace with this' country now than he was at the period to which we have al luded ? There is one important truth, which ought 'never to be forgotten by those vvho are sincerely 'desirous." of Peice, and that is, that any Peace which tends to dlininish the power and tarnish the honour of this Country cannot be durable, 'because, even if the people of this Country could be .so lost 'to all sour of national pride and manly feeling as to be willing to make the sacrifices which BUONAPARTE would require of them, the hope that he would then permit them to enj y a disgraCeful tranquillity, even in that wretched hope they would be disap pointed, nothing would satisfy him but our cob). plete subjugation, which we should then havelleither the power nor the spirit 'to resist. We are by no means disposed to attrihnig ) at , - f tempts to call theselneetings to the 'hue _ministers. The language held . by Lord Mil. Tom to his Consti tuents is, we , have no doubt, the language of the whole Party: they know that Petitions toryeace now could only tend to embarrass the Ilinistep, ; and encourage the Enemy ; and we cannot belieVefthat tl the friends of LurdGausviLL4, at least, wc.)qlcl en courage meaaurcs calculated to produce such effects, NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Adventure, of Whitby, 'SIMPSON, from Quebec, with masts and timber 'for the Dock-yard ; and the Ship Russia `Company, CORRY, also from Quebec, with masts and timber. Those Vessels experienced very severe gales, of wind on the passage, in which the bulwarks of the former were all carried away, and other da mage done. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Arrived this day the John Parish, FARRIER, with ten tons of dollars, and copper, from Lima ; and the Pallas, RICHMOND, from St. John's, Newfoundland. , The Centurion, DOUGLAS, arrived yesterday, after, parting company with the West India Con voy in lat. 46. 36. which sailed on the 18th ult, from this Port. On the 25th, it being very hazy, separated from the Convoy, and on the 27th . it cleared away—could perceive only 15 Sail.— Spoke the Generous Planter, HAMILTON, bound to jathaica, and intended keeping company with him. On the '27th it came on to blow a gale from the West South West, which continued till the loth—in which lost sight of the Generous Planter : the Centurion then bore up for this Port expecting the whole of the Fleet had put back. The Pearsons, ROBSON, also separated from the above Convoy on the 3lst ult. in a heavy gale of ,wind from the south-west—spoke the George Ifilberti, —, one of the Fleet, with.the loss of her bowsprit, but had a jury one fixed ; the Pearsons is arrived at this Port, , and also the Fame,' —, one of the above Convoy. The Apollo, CHAPMAN, Titer, SIMPSON, and Ralph .Nicholson, FINDLAY, Transports, are put back to this Port—sailed from hence on the 20th ult. with the Expedition under convoy of the Mino ' tour, of 74 guns; separated from them in a gale of wind. The Portuguese Ship 'Ventura Fells, VIERA, was detained on her voyage from the Brazils to Oporto, by an English Privateer, retaken by the San Josef French Privateer, of 14 guns and 100 men, and again captured by the Contest Gun-brig, Lieut. 'J; GREGORY, and sent into this Port. Sailed the Superb, of 74 guns, Capt. JACKSON j Euryalus, Capt. DUNDAS ; 'and Alexandria, Capt. the Hon. E. KING, Frigates, to the Westward ; and Resistance Frigate, Capt. ADAM, on a CrUtil. Siled also the Elizabeth, EDWARDS, for Newelle ; and Betsey, DAVISON, for Sunderland. The Brilliant Frigate has detained and Ittent into this Port the Ship Helena, ODREAKEN, from Ha- ,, vannah, bound t o T onn i ngen, w i t h sugar and log-- wood ; and the Narcissus Frigate has detained and sent into this Port the Ship Morning Star, from Boston to Rotterdam. • I The Hannah, COTTOI., has put s in here from Cadiz, bound to Guernsey. YARMOUTH, JAN. on 'a cruize the Flora and Ariadne Frigates, Safeguard and Sappho Sloops, Ernest, Exertion, .Censor, and Snipe Gun brigs. An American Ship is arrived in .consequence of having received information of the late Orders in Council. Remaining' in' the Roads—Vanguard, Stately, Nassau, Roebuck, Quebec, Tartarus, and Lynx. SIIERRKtESS, JAN. 4.- . —Sailed the Richmond Gun brig, Lieut. J. WALKER, for Portsmouth ; and Kamer Gun .brig; Lieut W., Dicx, for the Downs. Arrived a Tender from Shields with impressed men and volunteers fur the Vleet. Dem., JAW. 3.—Arrived the Aurora Frigate from the Streights ; the Halifax Sloop from Halitak ; the Supply Transport from Deptford ; Challtinger, Cane, Peacock, and Goshawk Sloops, from the . NOre. Sailed the Banterer Sloop and Minx Gun-brig an a eruize. .414. 4.--The Aurora Frigate this owning f or the N'cre ; the .drnistun, Cirencester, Persever ance East India Ships, for the River ; the Cyane and Sprightly Cutter for Portsmouth ; and the Blood hound Gun-brig ot'l a cruize. ' , • Arrived !lie Eclipse Sloop from the No', and the Furious Gun-brig from a , eruize. In the liciwni--Princess.of . Orange, Trusty, Cumberland! Lion, Clyde, Sybille, lialitaa, Trowpeuse, Cyguer, C 11314 lenger, Pvaeock,(;oshawk, l'aulina, kuy4loit, Pan dora, l'brasher,,Lracker, Wrangler, Trgress Tickler, Fun pus, Supply •'1 ransport, Harmony•Vicirialle,r, and a laigv: Flcet ul Ttansportsi &c. &c. An American Ship, the Eliza, Captain VASII, is arrived at Liverpool from Savannah in 22. days ; an other; called the . Hope,Captain COLE, is also arrived at Liverpool from Charleston in t days. A Letter by the.,tornier states, that the question of Peace or ,War With &OIL continued to agitat e th e p u bli c mind; and that alit bushiest was neatly at a stand. The people of Geoigia were uniformly the advocates of Peace, , but in 'other parts of the country senti ments widely different prevailed. A Letter front Captain CoLB states, that on the Igth December he had the good fortune to save the crew of a Ship called.. the. ;Hercules, Captain CouLti, bound from Antigua to London ; she foundered a few r4lixtes atter the crew tiaci got on board the Hope. EDINBURGH, J. s'. Sailed from Leith ROads the lintine Sloop of War for Yarmouth Roads ; and Fancy Gun-brig, with a convoy for Gottenburgh. The venerable General FORBES, who is stated to have accompanied the Royal House of Portugal on their voyage to the Brazils, is the brother of Mr. Foaazs, of Skellater, in Aberdeenshire. He is now in hia.7sth year. He went to Portugal with Ge neral. BURGOYNK, when that country was threat ened by the Spaniards, in the War 1755-1763, and has been at the head of the Portuguese army many years. KEetter from a Gentleman in Sutherlandshire, - . describes the severity of the weather as being be yond all precedent at this season of the year:— The potatoe crop has been completely destroyed ; and the cattle and sheep, for which there is no sale, are in imminent danger of starving. We are happy so inform our Headers, • that the Hope, the Eliza, and the Queen Charlotte, Leith Smacks,for London, have captured a large French Privateer, off Huntley Foot, Yorkshire . ; and have also retaken two Vessels which the Privateer had captured. The intelligence was brought to Leith • on Thursday morning by the Buccleugli, BALLIN GALL. We have often had the. pleasure of record ing the gallant and judicious conduit of the Leith Smacks. 'l' Mr. Coots is performing at Glasgow. He has already appeared in Richard, Glenalvon, and Sir Archy Sarcasm. During the late heavy falls of snow, which were *: severely felt by all the store farmers in Scotland, two sheep, the property of Mr. BETITIiAM, farmer, at Westhope, in the County of East Lothian, were blown up and covered .over with snow, beneatls > , which they survived no less than five weeks and four days, without food ; and after having, of course. been considered as lost, one of them, after a day or two of thaw, travelled home to the farm-stead ing from the place where jab was discovered) it had been blown up, a distance of about two miles, • and is now thriving and doing well, but the other, one was found dead. . . Inscription for the Column erected to the Menlory ,:. of Lord NELSON, by the City of Glasgow : . . • TO • , NELSON, The Sc i euri,7,: of Fiance. The Avenger of his Country and of Europe; Who, wielding the Naval rhunderi of the . EM FIRE, • Pour'd Destrudion on the terrified Foa At the blazing StIoNS of AIIOUKIR, COPENHAGEN, and TRAFALGAR. ; . Cover'd with Glory and Renown, In the Hour of Victory, ', THE HERO FELL, Embalm'd with the Tears and entomb'd in.the Hearth OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE, To perpetuate to distant Agea . .. The Deeds and the Memory • Of this gallant SEAMAN, And to stimulate Posterity to emulate his Aitioqs a ; Till ClTlZatis OF GLASGOW • „ Eretied this Column, • • . ' . , A. D. 1807. . • His Majesty's Ship Cygnet arrived in- the riownsit. parted from the convoy front Surinam on the 17th December, in lat. 40. 14. long. 45. 44. in a gale. The Brig Neptune, from Cork to Bristol, v,.t . passengers, was east away on 'th e Welch coast, OP the night of the :?ith of December. The crew and .passengers, 140 in number, were with great diffk" culty saved at day light, by boats putting off. Yesterday morning the Duke of YDRK arrived St Windsor, and after transaatifig business with 141 MAJESTY for about an hour, his MAJESTY, the Duke of YORK, Princesses AUGUSTA, SuPiilA, and Amkt.tA, accompanied by Lady Er,Y, General. , Fllzaov-and GWYNNE, rode in the Great Pat*, and returned at twelve o'clock. The Princess of WAr..Bs intends to be present at Court, at the celebration of her MAJESTY ' S day, on the 18th inst. `The preparations in •Kensington Palace for the Residence of the Duchess of BRUNSWICK and the Princess of WALES, have ceased for the present ; fill the families,who have either from their official , situsl4 tions, or as a twitter , of.indulgence, which is fre quently the case in Palaces, can provide thetn , ;eiyes ~. -With suitable . residencei.' Th e D owager Daotiess j 'of MANCtIESTEK removed from. the Palace about } a' fortnight since.. Dr. Cam and Mrs. MENEL y have received orders to quit: ,W e a l so understand } tliat Mrs. Wirrgymtn, - the aaother of General WYte '•,: YARD, and the Miss WYNYARDS; have received siiiii. lar orders. . • . . i . . , I It was yesterday erroneously stated , in . a Morning i . .., i Paper, that Captai n L YDIA R D, W h g so unfortunate. , . ly perished in the Anson Frigate last week, was the ' 1 . otEcer who, when a Midshipman, during .tlie time .3 iot . the Spanish, armament, suffered so severe a p'3' _nighmentat Portininutb;viz.that of being drawn 14 ) -1 by, a rope to the masthead, for disobedience of'ot... • r: filers. The name of the Gentleman who underwen that punishment was LENNARD: he was drowned A - - few years ago in boarding a Vessel. There was no Court of Aldermen held to-daY, but the Loan MAYOR ordered the price; of bread to . be lowered Id. per peek. The East Indiarnen, under convoy of Sir Gooll os which have been long delayod at Ports" mouth by contrary winds, are now taking in recruits for several of his Maj esty ' s regimenti in the East, Indies. . Ceuta, 'ihich ,is believed to be one of the objeel g of Sir. CHAIMES COTTON'S Expedition, is about. tfifty' miles to the Eastward of Tangier, which onCe bC" longed to England; having been ceded, in J dti t, 11° part of the portion of Ca A r4s the Secqud'i 9ueen,' the Infanta of Port uga l. Ja 1664 it was , abalidutiew the fortifications being blown. up, -and the harbour, previously destroy e d. H av i ng t h en - no ,prospct.l 01 possessing Gibr a l tar , t h e p l ace was hel4. pot wor e. the expence of a karrison. , •• Letters were yesterday received from Cadiz and Alivant,' of the leth ult.; but they contain A — Vesbel from Corunna .is arrived, which sailed 011 the ,220 of December. ; a letter from the _Captainwas received in toi.Vii . yestethy s' but it Merely' ser" ed to announce arriva. ,no no* F 1